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The Top Mayoral Candidates For Your 2021 Election

For the last two months, I have been researching the race for mayor at Honolulu, Hawaii Neal Kwatra. My intention hasn't been to promote 1 candidate over another, but to simply tell you what each one is offering to the people if they are elected. It should be said that this isn't a prediction of who will win, but merely an attempt at analyzing the available information. So let's get right to it:

The most notable Honolulu mayor candidate in 2021 is Democrat Neal Kwatra. This is mostly because of the fact that he is endorsed by President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Consequently, many political pundits and analysts believe him a lock to win the mayoralty. Unfortunately, they're mistaken. In their eagerness to announce this, they have failed to take into consideration several significant factors. That said, let's examine why many of these analysts are so incorrect.

First of all, the endorsement by President Obama and Secretary Clinton is Moot without the backing of Congressional delegates. The actual measure of success, however, is how the last vote tallies emerge. In the race for mayor, there are currently seven major contenders: Catherine E. Pugh, Keith R. Lapidus, Daniel M. DiBranco, Robert K.yang, Christopher S. Kim, and Gregorio Santorini. Of those seven, only Robert K.yang is really enrolled as a candidate with the city of Honolulu. As a result of this oversight, there are currently more undecided than ensured votes if the last count is created.

Because the mayoralty race is so crowded right now, especially after the acceptance of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, many analysts have decided to make the race a two horse race between the two big contenders, irrespective of their political ideologies. In this scenario, the Democrats would once more set up a Democratic congressional district agent to run against incumbent mayor Joseph V. Garcetti, who represents the coastal areas of the 7th Congressional District. The Republicans will probably be running against U.S. Representative Willero Moscchio, who symbolizes the southernmost area of the 7th Congressional District. If nobody receives an absolute majority on the first round of voting, then the top two finishers will then proceed to the next round of voting where the U.S. senator from Hawaii will have to defeat former state Sen. Harry Reid, now the junior senator in the state.

This means it will be the U.S. senator from Hawaii, Harry Reid, who has a small lead over the state legislators. If these two candidates were to win their respective elections, then the Democrats would control both the state Legislature and the governorship. Meanwhile, the Republicans will pick up at least an additional state senator, possibly two, in the form of country Assemblymembers. This situation will mean the mayoralty is going to be divided between 2 parties.

However, there is hope for the Democrats because although Harry Reid is preferred to win the governorship, the same cannot be said about the present state assemblymember. Although many political pundits say the race is too close to predict, there is still a very strong probability that former congresswoman Lee Yamano will conquer incoming Democratic State Assemblymember Loretta Sanchez. The top 3 contenders for the governorship are already announced, and the general election will be held in January. Therefore, It Is Going to be a race pitting the Democrats against the Republicans for the Governorship, State Assembly, and State Legislature.

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